When I get the "I wish I want a new car" blahs, I go to Enterprise and get the weekend special.

We have a free enterprise system.

In addition to frequency of transactions, the IRS would evaluate whether the activity is executed in a fashion similar to commercial enterprises in the same field.  

I am not sure we can ever agree on the importance of this bill because of that.While I do agree that people who set up a business operation that includes lending should be licensed and regulated, that is a far cry from believing the government should decide that businesses should fail that were previously following the rules and invested in those businesses in good faith that the government would not decide to destroy them.I have no real sympathy for someone who invests in a criminal enterprise who the government puts out of business because they started a business that should have never been started in the first place.

California definitely has this problem.3) Growth / Business friendliness: This is a concept that is tossed around a lot, and often-abused by enterprising politicians.

I was always told the cell was for your convenience, no one elses.I used to do inside sales at a enterprise IT company and the emails sent between 9-11am and 2-3:30pm got better hits than other times (our guess was the recipients were at their desk and had gone through their inbox already).

Were we have used TIC's and it was a very common enterprise on the West coast until the states started throwing in Securities issues. 

If this was private enterprise, Obama and half of Congress would be behind bars.

Roosevelt worked with Republican Senator George Norris to create the largest government-owned industrial enterprise in American history

However, it is really interesting to get so many very interesting and well informed thoughts and opinions from so many very enterprising and astute folks.